European elections: Established parties paved the way for the far-right party's success

The Hungarian right-wing extremist Jobbik party won 15 percent of the vote in the European elections, thus obtaining three seats in the EU Parliament. News portal Hírszerző blames the established parties: "For twenty years the established centrist parties used the fascist trump card and were thus able to gloss over the fact that they had nothing of substance to say. The strategy behind this was to mobilise the masses through emotional blackmail. … In addition the centrist parties thought that in view of the Nazi threat it was only a minor peccadillo to be corrupt, reform-lazy and inconsistent in power. They tried to fool the voters and made unholy demons out of insignificant marginal figures so often that in the end, when the Right was indeed gaining ground, no one was ready to believe the dark visions. … Jobbik's triumph bodes ill for the guardians of democracy."

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